January 17, 2008
Packers advise fans on cold
The Packers today posted guidelines on handling the cold for fans attending Sunday's NFC Championship.Current forecasts are calling for the temperature at kickoff, 5:42 p.m., to be near 0 degrees,...
Steph surgery, for sure
By MARC BERMANAs expected, the Knicks today announced Stephon Marbury will undergo surgery on his left ankle Tuesday to repair a fractured bone spur, leaving the possibility he has played...
Ten rules to live by when you're playing online
I rarely-to-never play games online because I can't deal with the folks who are playing games online.A prime example would be that time when I tried to play "Shadowrun" against...
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Design student Charli Mize sports a Betsy Johnson bag and Free People pants with European shoes. "My style is eclectic-vintage, and I like mixing patterns."Photo by Elizabeth Lippman ©01-08-08
Dirty jokes from O'Hara
Giants center Shaun O'Hara tried to block accusations of dirty play by the Packers with some humor today at practice."I think my mom knows that she raised me right to...
Ross adds to practice
Tom Coughlin said injured CB Aaron Ross (dislocated shoulder) still was limited put took part in more of practice today.OL Kareem McKenzie went through a full practice, DB Sam Madison...
Lex Luthor, the new voice of "Dark Sector"
That's right! "Smallville's" Lex Luthor - aka Michael Rosenbaum - is taking on the voice duties of "Dark Sector's" Hayden Tenno, a killer who wakes up from an attack with...
Ho ho ho! Leisure Suit Larry comes to next-gen consoles
Yes, that's right! That sketchball Leisure Suit Larry will be checking out the ladies and doing all sorts of family unfriendly things this fall on the Xbox 360 and PS3....
No way!
Who says you don't learn anything from gaming? Back in November, 28-year old Paxton Galvanek, a longtime "America's Army" player, was the first person on the scene of a bad...
Sundance: An Uphill Struggle
I'd forgotten how hard it can be to trudge up Main Street the morning after arriving in Park City. It was a cold morning (it was two degrees here last...
Carson honorary captain
Harry Carson and Lt. Col. Greg Gadson were named honorary captains for Sunday's NFC Championship Game against hte Packers.
Selig gets three more years
APBud Selig was given a three-year extension as baseball commissioner through the 2012 season.The unanimous decision made at todayâs ownersâ meeting came two days after Selig and union head Donald...
Twins "intrigued" by Mets offer
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that Twins officials privately say they think Johan Santana will be traded before spring training opens next month.And that lately, the Twins have seemed most intrigued...
Santana deal before spring training?
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that Twins officials privately say they think Johan Santana will be traded before spring training opens next month. And that lately, the Twins have seemed most...
Recap: American Idol, Episode 2
The judges were being so nice. It was almost more uncomfortable to watch, than if they had been ripping out contestantsâ living, beating hearts and eating them on the spot....
Deal of the Day
If you hate those handbags that have logo vomit all over them as much as I do, check out Boyybog.The New York based design duo have been making some pretty...
Sundance: Stumbling Through the First Day
I arrived in Park City around 11 o'clock last night after a rough flight from Newark what seemed like a tour of half of the town's condos in the van...
GWYNETH PALTROW'S HUBBY GETS INTO SCUFFLE WITH PHOTOGRAPHER
As Gwyneth Paltrow tried to make a quiet exit from a New York City hospital after being treated for an undisclosed reason, hubby Chris Martin decided to pick a fight...
Recap: Project Runway, Episode 8
SOME PEOPLE - Iâm not naming names, but I will say âMacaw!â - canât let go of last weekâs heinous challenge. But good old Project Runway has not let us...
Starr Report
Last, but not least: * Tonight: Christiane Amanpour co-hosts a benefit performance of "The Maddening Truth" (8 p.m.) at The Clurman Theater (42nd St.).* Emme is on today's "Early Show"...
UPDATE: Before we harass you, please enjoy this short film
Has anyone seen this film at Customs and Immigration yet? If not, please enjoy -- this is the Department of Homeland Security's way of trying to butter up foreign arrivals....
CHOCOLATE - AN ANCIENT FAVORITE TREAT
Today's page looks at one of the world's favorite foods - chocolate. CHOCOLATE comes from the cacao tree, which was discovered more than 2,000 years ago in the tropical rainforests...
HAUTE LIST
Don't let dry-scalp blues go to your head DITCH dry, flaky skin - and that includes your scalp - with home and salon treatments that promise to unclog hair follicles,...
LANE & ABLE
'WHO do I have to f - - - around here to get re-elected?" That's the question - though it's not asked exactly that way - in David Mamet's "November,"...
STARR REPORT
Hold the stuffing Super Bowl viewers looking for something different Feb. 3 - while stuffing their faces during halftime - can switch over to Spike. It's teaming with Major League...
'RACE' LOSERS STILL A COUPLE
THE bickering couple "Amazing Race 12" fans love to hate are still dating - and may even get married. Jennifer Parker and Nathan Hagstrom appeared to be on the verge...
TOUR DE PANTS
WHEN AMC decided to get into the business of creating and producing original series, they didn't fool around. And they still don't. Fool around, that is. The first series out...
GRIDSCHLOCK ALERT
'CLOVERFIELD" combines unpleasantness and stupidity to a degree that would be difficult to match unless you were stuck in bed with a case of the shingles while being forced to...
RAMS CAN COUNT ON DUNSTON
It wasn't Game 7 of the NBA Finals, but Fordham forward Bryant Dunston did his best Willis Reed impersonation last night. Like the hobbled Knicks Hall of Famer in 1970,...
CLOCK TICKS ON NYRA DEAL
Just one week until NYRA's franchise extension expires Jan. 23, and still no resolution. Spokesman for state's Racing Oversight Board has not returned repeated calls. Word from Albany is that...
SPORTS SHORTS
HOOPS: Knight notches 900th winBob Knight reached another milestone last night as Texas Tech beat No. 10 Texas A&M 68-53, the Hall of Fame coach's 900th career victory. After the...
JONES: FELIX WILL GO DOWN QUICKLY
As his fists sliced through the thick air inside the Kingsway Gym in Manhattan yesterday, Roy Jones Jr. wore the smile of a man who has been reunited with his...
WORLD BODY RIPS MLB ON DOPING
Major League Baseball may have gotten off easy in front of Congress on Tuesday, but yesterday the World Anti-Doping Agency's new president blasted the sport. John Fahey, the new WADA...
FOCUSED GROUP
THE phone rang last night in the office of Stacey James, the Patriots' director of media relations, up in Foxborough, Mass. James, who's been around for more than his share...
IT'S ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE
MOTHER Nature took it away and now she's giving it back. The nor'easter that was a bust in the city dumped anywhere from 4-10 inches from the Catskills to the...
ISLANDERS KEEP HEX ON DEVILS
NY must stand for Not Yet to NJ. It's naught-for-nine and getting ridiculous for the Devils (0-6-3) against the Islanders and Rangers since moving from the Meadowlands this season. Now...
GREY AREA
Three seasons working on Brett Favre's offensive line gives Grey Ruegamer a perspective of the future Hall of Fame quarterback unlike anyone the Giants have on their roster. And so,...
GRANT HOLDS NO GRUDGE
GREEN BAY - Ryan Grant went undrafted, lost a year when he slipped and put his hand through a glass table, and was told he made the Giants this season...
VETERANS: THIS IS A GIANT OPPORTUNITY
Usually not one to reminisce, receiver Plaxico Burress yesterday sounded like a grizzled veteran when asked about the 2001 AFC Championship game he played in and lost (to the Patriots)...
FORMULA WON
THREE-time Super Bowl champion quarterback and Fox analyst Troy Aikman, who watched the Bears rout Brett Favre and the Packers, 35-7, Dec. 23 in the wind and cold at Soldier...
CALL IT A CAREER
LOGIC tells us this isn't supposed to be Eli Manning vs. Brett Favre, this is about the Giants and the Packers, offense vs. defense, so on and so forth. But...
BAITED BRETT
GREEN BAY - The ice water in Brett Favre's veins that made his reputation as the greatest cold-weather quarterback there ever was, strictly was an accident of birth. "I grew...
TOM, THE COMEBACK KID, NOT YET IN-VINCE-ABLE
TOM Coughlin been The Heartbreak Kid of head coaches, 60 minutes from the Super Bowl in 1997 and again in 2000, and here he comes again, with a team just...
DEFENSIVE BACKS: WE WILL PASS TEST
The Giants' mix-and-match secondary will have a bull's-eye on its back Sunday. Beset by injuries that continue to mount, the Big Blue defensive backs now have to face certain Hall-of-Famer...
COLD WAR
Back when he was a rookie in 2004, Chris Snee walked the hallowed Lambeau Field grass. He got his fill for the first time. Now it's strictly business. "I'm a...
THREE-MENDOUS!
If the playoffs started today, the Knicks still would be a lottery team. By a lot. But they would feel better about themselves than the Nets. By a lot. Beat...
STEPHON: ANKLE SURGERY A MUST
Stephon Marbury said yesterday he's a lock for left-ankle surgery in the next few days, saying today's MRI exam is just a formality. Marbury already has had two X-rays and...
JAMAL HANGS 35 ON NETS
In the final 30 seconds, the fans at the Meadowlands chanted "New York Knicks." During this horror show of a Knick season, it hasn't gotten any better than that. The...
TEAM USA HONORS KIDD
The team had Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony. Nevertheless, it seemed like the daily reports from Team USA last summer contained highest praise for Jason Kidd. USA Basketball...
UGLY ENDING IN RANGER VICTORY
There was nothing clean about the Rangers' 2-1 victory over the Sabres last night at the Garden, and that includes the way the match ended. For when it was over,...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
You won't lack for opportunities over the coming 12 months but if you want to make your mark on the world you must limit yourself to the one aim or...
LOBBYISTS PAY 325G PENALTIES
Lobbyists and their clients have forked over more than $325,000 in fines and penalties to the city clerk for missing filing deadlines, The Post has learned. The largest set of...
SPITZ 'POSTERED' 129G IN CAMPAIGN FINES
ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer's campaign committee paid $129,150 in fines last month after knowingly violating New York City's ban on hanging posters on street lampposts during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign,...
OTB'S LAST CALL
City OTB leaders yesterday laid out plans to shut down the entire operation on June 15 - the day the money runs out. OTB chairman David Cornstein warned that, to...
CON ED FEELS STEAM HEAT
Con Ed "failed to connect critical dots" in the operation of its steam system, and its negligence may have led to the July 18 explosion in Midtown that killed a...
MIKE IS KEEPING PROPERTY-TAX CUT
Despite a $2.7 billion budget gap, Mayor Bloomberg will announce today that the city will maintain a 7 percent property tax cut, as well as the annual $400 rebate to...
RING THEIR BELLES
Jennifer Ohlsson was working it. She was clad in a glam dress, 4-inch stilettos and full makeup - the perfect image of a gorgeous girl out on the town. That's...
HE'S BIIIG BLUE
He weighs more than 500 pounds, but that wasn't enough to tip the scales of justice for ex-cop Paul Soto. The rotund retiree lost his legal argument that it was...
'BERNIE' TO FINALLY BE LAID TO REST
Virgilio Cintron will finally get to rest in peace next week after a wake Monday at a Manhattan funeral home and a Tuesday burial. Cintron, 66, gained the fame in...
FLU SLAMS CITY, BUT YOU STILL GOT A SHOT
City health officials warned yesterday the flu is spreading like wildfire - but it isn't too late to get a flu shot. Emergency room visits for flu-related symptoms have spiked...
CAR-FEE PLAN DRIVES COMMUTERS TO RAGE
Angry commuters slammed Mayor Bloomberg's plan to charge drivers up to $8 to enter most of Manhattan yesterday. About 100 opponents showed up to a public hearing at Hunter College...
EX-NARCS SUING OVER 'GANGSTER'S' CLAIMS
A group of retired federal drug-enforcement agents sued the company behind the film "American Gangster" yesterday, saying they were falsely portrayed as sticky-fingered bad guys in the movie about the...
INTERPRETER LIVED 'IN FEAR'
The Russian interpreter who worked on sensitive mob cases in Brooklyn and Manhattan federal courts told friends she was fearful of a man just days before she mysteriously disappeared several...
MONSTER STILL OWES HIS WIFE
He couldn't take his wife's life, but he did take her livelihood - and now he's been ordered him to pay her back. In a ruling made public yesterday, Manhattan...
BULL-Y FOR US!
It's a face only a mother, George Clooney and Manhattanites could love. After 75 years in the doghouse, the humble bulldog is back on the list of Top 10 favorite...
CHOP-SHOP STING BAGS QUEENS COP
A Queens cop and several other city employees were busted for insurance fraud in a chop-shop scam, authorities said yesterday. Officer Shantell McKinnies, 27, assigned to the 102nd Precinct, was...
IMAGES OF HER AGONY
A neighbor who called 911 the night 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown was beaten to death broke down in tears on the witness stand yesterday as she gazed at a photo of...
GIANT FAN MIKE IS BETTING MAYOR MCCHEESE
There's one sure bet in sports: When a New York team gets into the postseason, Mayor Bloomberg will make a friendly wager with the mayor of the rival club's city....
FIRE DEPT. WELCOMES FRESH FACES
One woman and 273 men graduated from the Fire Department's newly expanded 23-week training program in a Queens College ceremony yesterday. Among them are 22 veterans - nine from Iraq...
FIGHTING 69TH TO AFGHANISTAN
About 130 of New York's citizen soldiers bid emotional farewells to their families yesterday headed for Afghanistan - by way of North Carolina - to pull a year's duty. The...
FUND-RAISING AT THE APOLLO
Officials at Harlem's Apollo Theater yesterday began a public fund-raising drive to restore the legendary showplace and create an archive. The $47 million project includes doubling the size of the...
'DEAF' JAM FOXY BIDS TO BE FREE
Foxy Brown has had quite enough of jail, thank you very much. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the hip-hop queen says that she's a changed woman after spending...
JEWELER GETS JAIL IN JIHAD HOAX
A Syrian-born jeweler was sentenced to six months in jail yesterday for framing five compatriot business rivals by telling cops they were Islamic radicals plotting a suicide bombing on the...
PBA PERV PLOY
The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office and the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association will ask a judge today to classify a convicted cop-killer as a dangerous sexual predator, sources said. Shu'aib Raheem, 58,...
BANK BOSS BUSTED IN $1M EMBEZZLE
The former manager of a Long Island bank branch was busted yesterday on charges of embezzling $1 million, cops said. William Brahe Jr., of East Meadow, ex-manager of the Chase...
4 YRS. FOR $3M JEWEL SCAMMER
No jewelry this time - just handcuffs. Ex-social worker Tracy Ball was sentenced in Manhattan yesterday for a spectacular swindle - buying some $3 million in diamonds and sapphires and...
EDDIE'S BANANA SPLIT
Eddie Murphy's latest marriage lasted slightly longer than the wedding. Quicker than you can say "Boomerang," the funnyman yesterday announced that he and wife Tracey Edmonds have split - after...
PACKER DAD A TAPE WORM
The boy is probably a Giants fan. A Wisconsin man on forced his 7-year-old son to wear a Green Bay Packers jersey - using tape to restrain the kid -...
OBAMA SURGES, BUT HILL HANGS ON
Two national polls yesterday showed Barack Obama closing the gap with Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic race, while Sen. John McCain has established a lead in the GOP field....
SC RACE GETS UGLY AS MUCK FLIES AT MAC
GOP presidential candidate John McCain was greeted yesterday by dirty tricks and smears in South Carolina, as Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama slammed each other in Nevada over...
LEYRITZ .06 OVER LEGAL LIMIT
Ex-Yankee home run hero Jim Leyritz was slapped with an additional manslaughter charge yesterday after toxicology results revealed his blood-alcohol levels were nearly twice the legal limit the day he...
JENNA DUE TO 'I DO' MAY 10
First Daughter Jenna Bush and her fiancé have reportedly set a wedding date, and it appears they will not be tying the knot in the White House. Bush, 26, and...
ROUGHING CALL ON RANDY MOSS
A Florida woman has dropped a bomb on Randy Moss' perfect season - charging that the New England Patriot star has a substance-abuse problem and roughed her up. Rachelle Washington,...
FURIOUS JUDGE SLICES UP O.J.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A fuming judge squeezed the Juice to a pulp yesterday, doubling his bail and lambasting him for trying to contact a co-defendant in his armed-robbery case...
CRASH TEEN'S BRAVERY
She's a race-walking star who may never take another step, but the city teen partially paralyzed after a horrific Vermont highway crash refuses to give up hope. "The doctors are...
STAR-DUDDED OSCARS TO GO ON, SANS WRITERS
The planners of the Oscars vowed yesterday that come writer's strike or high water the show will go on - even if Hollywood's biggest stars decide to stay home. "We...
JONES ATONES
With most other athletes running away from allegations that they used performance-enhancing drugs, disgraced Olympic track star Marion Jones says the best move she ever made was to admit she...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Two club patrons were arrested for stabbing a man and a bouncer after a fight erupted in the VIP room of a Flatiron District hotspot, authorities said yesterday. Steven...
I NEED A REAL MAN FOR PREZ
I NEED a man. A man who can say "No." A man who rejects Big Nanny government. A man who thinks being president doesn't mean playing Santa Claus. A man...
THIS FACE OF EVIL ISN'T EVEN HUMAN
HIS face was rat-like, pockmarked and sullen. His shoulders were hunched. His hands were small. Cesar Rodriguez walked into the Brooklyn courtroom silently and surly yesterday, carrying nothing more than...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 620; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 4996; Lucky Sum: 28 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 443; Lucky Sum: 11; Evening Win-4 Wed.: 2917; Lucky...
THE KILLER-VET LIE
Memo to New York Times Public Ed itor Clark Hoyt: Your urgent atten tion is needed on the slanderous 7,000-word front-page article published last Sunday about homicides allegedly committed by...
LYNCH-ING THE ROOKIES - AGAIN
Really. Does PBA President Pat Lynch have any shame? Not if the police union's latest effort to hurt rookie cops is any indication. Last month, the PBA quietly filed a...
THE VICTIM FOLLIES
Hillary Clinton's cam paign, useful at last, has in recent days added to the nation's stock of harmless merriment. It has done so by floundering around, like a dinosaur drowning...
HILLARY'S HURTFUL HINTS
WITH Barack Obama nip ping at her heels in Iowa, Hillary Clinton went on the state's public TV Dec. 14 to say: "I've been vetted . . . There are...
HOW TO MUG SCHOOL REFORM
ALL across the nation, the defenders of the status quo in public education work from the same playbook to stop innovation and empowerment of parents to choose a better education...
CONGESTION INDIGESTION: FIX MASS TRANSIT FIRST
I enjoyed Patrick Gallahue's article about New Yorkers' reactions to Mayor Bloomberg's congestion-pricing proposal ("Anti-Drive-Fee NYers Willing to $hift Gear," Jan 11). This all hinges on mass-transit improvement. Look at...
BRAVEST - OR SICKEST?
Good for the FDNY in standing up for itself (" 'Sick'ened FDNY Eyes Cuts," Jan. 13). The ungrateful citizens and politicians of this city need to see the sacrifices that...
POLISHED DIMON
Jamie Dimon can rightly claim the throne as the king of Wall Street's bankers. His JPMorgan Chase is now worth more in market value than the one-time world leader Citigroup,...
WRITERS' STRIKE DOESN'T RATE WITH VIEWERS
January was supposed to be the month when the networks were to feel the full brunt of the writers' strike, but so far there's no evidence of a mass exodus...
THIS IS A VERY SCARY TIME TO BE AN INVESTOR
WHEN all is said and done this corporate earnings season, profits will probably be only infinitesimally higher. That's not even close to what the experts projected just a few months...
HIGH-RISE ANXIETY
Time is running out for Harry Macklowe. The Manhattan real estate mogul has been pounding on doors all over the world during the last eight months, trying to round up...
HIRSCHORN LOOKING FOR THE DOOR AT VH1
Michael Hirschorn, the VH1 programming chief responsible for the network's turnaround with hits like "Flavor of Love" and "I Love New York," is close to leaving the network, The Post...
ROLLING STONES MULLING EMI EXIT
The Rolling Stones may be the next major music act to strut away from a traditional record company deal and sign with touring giant Live Nation. The mega-rockers are nearing...
SYMS MARKDOWN
Syms - the off-price clothing chain whose slogan is "an educated consumer is our best customer" - has a few shareholders who would like to be enlightened, as well. In...
ICAHN HITS TRIPLE PROFIT PLAY
Carl Icahn is winning big on his gloom-and-doom bets, scoring three victories yesterday - including a sweetened $8.5 billion deal to sell tech assets to Oracle. Oracle agreed to pay...
THEIR PAYROLL PA$TIME
The founders of bankrupt Hollywood payroll firm Axium International used company money to pay for a lavish lifestyle involving luxury cars, private jet travel and an apartment for an actress...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Barack Obama doesn't want votes only from people - he wants to represent animals, too. "What about animal rights?" cried out a woman as Obama stumped near Las Vegas yesterday....
4 days, 3 wins, 1 surgery
By MARC BERMANAnd the beat goes on. The Knicks' third straight win was the sweetest - at Jersey's Izod Center last night, with a couple of thousand Knick fans sticking...
NEXT WEST THING
LOOK north from 57th Street on the far west side of Manhattan, and you'll see one of the city's final residential frontiers. Where once the skyline was low - sweeping...
O, THAT'S RICH!
We should be seeing a lot more of Oprah Winfrey in the Big Apple, since her "best friend" Gayle King has bought a Manhattan apartment. Sources tell us that King,...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan CHELSEA $3,200,000 252 Seventh Ave. Prewar three-bedroom, three-bath penthouse triplex condo, 2,091 square feet, with granite kitchen, office, washer/dryer, sky-lights and terrace; Chelsea Mercantile building features garage, concierge and...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Armonk, NY $1.895 million Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 4 1/2 Square feet: 5,784 Located on more than 3 acres of prime, private Westchester property, this "spectacular" Contemporary features an updated eat-in...
HOT & COLD
Back in 2004, during the height of Miami real-estate madness, Met One, the first condo tower in downtown's Met Miami project, sold all of its 447 units in one year....
LIVING ON THE EDGE
'Gary Barnett [the president and CEO of Extell Development Corp.] is building a community," says Corcoran Sunshine Marketing's Anne Young about Riverside South, an Extell project in the far West...
DREAM HOMES
Gramercy Park $3.5 million Surrounded by protected low-rise buildings, this 2,000-square-foot co-op loft on the 11th floor, just off the park, offers plenty of sunlight and great views, particularly through...
At Least Someone Likes Dolan
Knicks owner James Dolan has at least one fan in New York: Don King. Knicks owner James Dolan has at least one fan in New York: Don King. The spiked-haired...
Simple Addition
So after some lazy, uninspired and unaccountable hockey over the last couple weeks, the Rangers actually showed up tonight with a 2-1 win over the struggling Sabres. Of course, this...